Oklahoma City Thunder (35-7, first in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (21-20, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will attempt to keep its five-game win streak alive when the Thunder take on Miami.<\/p>\n
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The Heat have gone 14-7 in home games. Miami is third in the league with 54.7 points in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez Jr. averaging 10.9.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are 15-4 on the road. Oklahoma City is second in the Western Conference with 34.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Isaiah Hartenstein averaging 7.0.<\/p>\n
The 119.4 points per game the Heat score are 11.7 more points than the Thunder allow (107.7). The Thunder average 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 fewer makes per game than the Heat allow.<\/p>\n
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The two teams play for the second time this season. The Thunder defeated the Heat 124-112 in their last matchup on Jan. 12. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 29 points, and Andrew Wiggins led the Heat with 23 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Norman Powell is averaging 23.9 points for the Heat. Wiggins is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Chet Holmgren is averaging 17.9 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks for the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 27.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 5-5, averaging 119.3 points, 44.3 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 8-2, averaging 119.7 points, 42.3 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 10.1 steals and 7.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: day to day (knee), Davion Mitchell: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n
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Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Isaiah Hartenstein: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (35-7, first in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (21-20, eighth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40936,45901,43337,16197,1454,38343,45005,123,125,2490,124,60342,15966,5816,5822,31623,38344,43335,60343,31622],"class_list":{"0":"post-120306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-chet-holmgren","10":"tag-davion-mitchell","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-heat","13":"tag-isaiah-hartenstein","14":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-miami-headlines","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-miami-news","19":"tag-nikola-topic","20":"tag-norman-powell","21":"tag-oklahoma-city","22":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","23":"tag-points-per-game","24":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","25":"tag-the-heat","26":"tag-thomas-sorber","27":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}